DD (2008): Leadership Lessons

Conduct and publish interviews of current or former ALA leaders with emphasis on leadership stories and lessons learned.

Sponsor: EL

Description
What can the millenials learn from the traditionalists and the boomers? This group will choose library leaders (in official leadership positions as well as innovators on the front-lines) to be interviewed, conduct interviews, and publish the lessons and stories of leaders in ALA and the field. The initial expected outcome was that we would publish these leadership lessons on the EL Leadership Wiki. The team, in the hopes of making this content more visible and widely accessible, plan to publish the results of our interviews to a website we will create.

Timeline
1/11: Meet at Midwinter to plan project.

1/21: Post at least 5 potential interviewees to Team Wiki. Assign interviewees to team members and begin scheduling interviews.

3/30: Interviews completed.

4/15: Split team to work on architecture of website (upload content from Team Wiki to official website!) and planning for poster session.

6/10: Project completed. Troubleshoot and finetune.

6/27: Unveil website and present at poster sessions at Annual.

Group Members and Team Roles
All team members will conduct interviews and post their interviews to the Team Wiki, a (backend) virtual workspace where we can communicate and collect content. The team will then split up and half will work on publishing content to a website created for this project, and the other half will work on the presentation and poster session.